1. High Pressure Vessels.- 1.1 Introduction.- 1.2 Economic Considerations and Cost Reduction.- 1.3 Stress Significance.- 1.4 Factors of Safety and Their Optimum Value.- 2. Stresses and Deflection.- 2.1 Thin-Walled Vessels.- 2.2 Stresses in a Circular Ring, Cylinder, Sphere, and Submersibles.- 2.3 Poisson's Ratio.- 2.4 Dilation of Pressure Vessels.- 2.5 Intersecting Spheres.- 2.6 General Theory of Membrane Stresses in Vessels Under Internal Pressure.- 2.7 Torus Under Internal Pressure.- 2.8 Thick Cylinder and Thick Sphere.- 2.9 Shrink-Fit Stresses in Builtup Cylinders.- 2.10 Autofrettage of Thick Cylinders.- 2.11 Thermal Stresses Due to Temperature Transients.- Problems.- References.- 3. Theories of Material Failure.- 3.1 Materials and Their Environment.- 3.2 Material Tensile Tests.- 3.3 Structure of Steel and Leuder's Lines.- 3.4 Fracture Types.- 3.5 Toughness of Materials.- 3.6 Theories of Failure.- 3.7 Brittle Fracture. Design Methodology.- References.- 4. Cyclic Service Influence.- 4.1 Safety Factors-History and Significance.- 4.2 Endurance Limit Philosophy.- 4.3 ASME Code-Type Fatigue Curves.- 4.4 Problems with Fatigue Analysis.- 4.5 Toughness, Quantifying It, and Temperature Influence.- 4.6 Material Quality and Crack Initiation.- 4.7 Crack Growth versus Stress.- 4.8 Critical Crack Size and Crack Arrest.- 4.9 Environmental Effects.- 4.10 Cumulative Damage.- References.- 5. Specific Design and Construction.- 5.1 Special High Pressure Considerations.- 5.2 High Pressure Vessel Design Construction Principles.- 5.3 High Pressure Vessel Closures.- 5.4 Stress Concentration Effects.- 5.5 Attachment and Connection Techniques.- References.- 6. Hazards and Safety.- 6.1 General.- 6.2 Calculating the Estimated Confined Energy.- 6.3 Barrier Sizing.- 6.4 An Alternative.- 6.5Basis for Establishing an Examination Period.- 6.6 Creating an Examination Program.- 6.7 Evaluation and Recordkeeping.- References.- 7. Analysis Techniques.- 7.1 Traditional Methods.- 7.2 Finite Element Studies.- 7.3 Iterative Concepts.